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Provides perspective on their current locations. The 2025 data is available as a spreadsheet.
Resources
- https://www.statista.com/statistics/1228433/data-centers-worldwide-by-country/
- https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-worlds-largest-cloud-providers-ranked-by-market-share/
- https://www.businessinsider.com/data-center-locations-us-map-ai-boom-2025-9
- https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/10/24/2765345/0/en/GDPR-Compliance-and-Continued-Expansion-Drive-European-Data-Center-Colocation-Growth-to-2028.html
- https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/Visualizing-Data-Center-Demand-by-Region--5666
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24/12/2025
Number of data centers worldwide 2025, by country or territory
Petroc Taylor is a researcher with Statista's Technology and Telecommunications team. His research focus is global developments in the use of data, including trends in big data, analytics, and storage, as well as the impact of emerging data technologies across industries and sectors. He also supports the team's coverage of operating systems, telecommunications, and the technology industry in Africa..
As of November 2025, there were a reported 4,165 data centers in the United States, the most of any country worldwide. A further 499 were located in the United Kingdom, while 487 were located in Germany.
What is a data center?
Data centers are facilities designed to store and compute vast amounts of data efficiently and securely. Growing in importance amid the rise of cloud computing and artificial intelligence, data centers form the core infrastructure powering global digital transformation. Modern data centers consist of critical computing hardware such as servers, storage systems, and networking equipment organized into racks, alongside specialized secondary infrastructure providing power, cooling, and security.
AI data centers
Data centers are vital for artificial intelligence, with the world’s leading technology companies investing vast sums in new facilities across the globe. Purpose-built AI data centers provide the immense computing power required to train the most advanced AI models, as well as to process user requests in real time, a task known as inference. Increasing attention has therefore turned to the location of these powerful facilities, as governments grow more concerned with AI sovereignty. At the same time, rapid data center expansion has sparked a global debate over resource use, including land, energy, and water, as modern facilities begin to strain local infrastructure.
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